I'm all for the intelligent use of military ordnance in order to inflict maximum degradation of an enemy's ability to fight. And that will necessarily include civilian casualties.
Whoever was advocating a pogrom, dragging ALL Palestinian males ages 18-44 out of their homes, whether armed or not, whether Hamas or not, to be followed by castration and summary execution of said unarmed prisoners, was advocating mass murder.
And that's the only distinction I was trying to make.
To quote the owner of this site: "I don't advocate genocide or ethnic cleansing."
Well, neither do I, and performing the above-mentioned atrocity would be the very definition of ethnic cleansing.
So, once, again, I must apologize for being such a weak-kneed, dovish peacenik for expressing my opposition to outright murder driven by blind, satanic hatred.
Israel will win this conflict, but not by becoming the animals which they oppose.
The paleostines will destroy themselves if they keep firing at Ashkelon. It is an industrial city, and Gaza is down wind. The last part of Isaiah 14, and Zephaniah describe just that scenario. Burn Ashkelon, and everything down wind dies...